Star Trek CCG Dream Cards AtoZ

Siskoid and the Irredeemable Shagg discuss their passion for the Star Trek Collectible Card Game - how it works, what their favorite elements are, and how it made them the geeks they are, including the secret origin of Siskoid! Listen to the Episode by clicking HERE ! Or you can right-click “download”, choose “Save Target/Link As”, and select a location on your computer to save the file (58 MB) . Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes ! Highlights of the Star Trek Customizable Card Game to illustrate the episode: Siskoid's collection in 4 pics, starting with expansion boxes and packs: Here are some of the specialty products: Siskoid keeps one copy of every card in these long boxes, and here has opened the Fajo Collection: Just rule sheets, the Players' Guide, and a big poster featuring all cards from the Basic Set: The Borg, compared to the original affiliations: Shagg's favorites... ...and the "dream cards" he made (with comparison with cards later m...

More Broken Links from By Inferno's Light! This time: Who's up for a game of Parrises Squares? BROKEN LINKS: [16] Voth personnel [17] Parrises Squares [18] Penny Muroc [19] Baseball personnel [20] Baseball personnel NOTES:  [16] Voth emerge as attribute drainers and strong Law personnel. Odala is matching commander for a ship we've yet to see, but will. Source: "Distant Origin" [17] A couple of references necessitated this Broken Link. To Each His Own [B80] nullifies it, and Belle [B+35] has a STRENGTH boost when playing it. Those were my clues as to what to do with it. Source: "Is There in Beauty No Truth?" [18] Penny is a native of the Bonestell Recreation Facility Time Location [B274]. There wasn't really room to limit the Food card nullification to drinks and beverages, but I can easily imaging her throwing full plates around. Source: "Tapestry" [19] Source: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" [20] Source: "Take Me Out to the ...

More Broken Links from By Inferno's Light! This time: A bunch of Non-Aligneds... BROKEN LINKS: [11] Gabriel Bell [12] Voth personnel [13] Meribor [14] Micheal Webb [15] Mithran-class ship NOTES:  [11] The Gabe Bell personnel card [B140] is both a Sisko persona AND this card's persona (who is also required of Bell Riots [B139]). Source: "Past Tense, Part I" [12] Source: "Distant Origin" [13] She is mentioned in the note for Batail [B111], who affects personnel from Kataan. She was the only one who hadn't been made. Enriched Soil [B354] puts her own skill of Biology (and +5 points) in any mission's requirements. Source: "The Inner Light" [14] Sanctuary District A being required of Bell Riots [B139], it gets a spot in Broken Links. Obviously, that means any native I was planning on will be listed, so I really needed to make a Michael Webb. Source: "Past Tense, Part II" [15] A requirement for the Test Coaxial Warp Drive mission [B+39]...

More Broken Links... This time: Introducing a Q-Personnel. BROKEN LINKS: [6] Espionage: Federation on Romulan [7] Baseball personnel [8] Q personnel [9] Food Fight [10] Voth personnel NOTES:  [6] Barber Shop [B65] downloads it (it's a reference to Mot making the wigs). Source: "Unification I" [7] As promised, more baseball characters. If used, Baseball goes to the point area, so her special ability recovers one that wasn't actually used. As for the persona problem, I've never liked that Jadzia Dax was listed on the Ezri cards - let her be her own person! also, it's clunky for the lore - so here's the ruling: The "surname" Dax is a persona unto itself (unless an AU) and can't be in play together. Whatever persona is in bold can switch with that persona (so Decipher's Ezris can switch with Jadzia, but this Ezri can only switch with an Ezri. If all else fails, remember the episode "Facets". Source: "Take Me Out to the Holosuit...

Just like we did with the A's, By Inferno's Light generated a fair few Broken Links. The next 40 cards were designed in 2025, not the late 90s! BROKEN LINKS: [1] A universal Evora [2] Aquiel Unhari [3] Baseball personnel [4] Baseball personnel [5] Cortin Zweller NOTES:  [1] Balsamic Vinaigrette [B+15] makes Evoran equivalent to Antidean (which AtoZ gave cards to), and we only had the Cuzar, so  a universal Evora seemed indicated. The name is derived from his presence on Tulgana IV - it's the name of the planet in reverse. Source: "Envoys" [2] The interrupt Batarael [B113] can download her. Lieutenant's Log is at A236. Source: "Aquiel" [3] Bunt [B+74] talks about baseball personnel, and I know it's not the only one. I've therefore made a bunch of characters from the baseball episode. His baseball-colored Nemesis icon matches Team Captain Sisko's, later in this set. Source: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" [4] I've decided that ...

The last of the Enhanced B's... THE ENTRIES: [71] Brooks, Ensign [72] Brota [73] Bullock, Admiral [74] bunt [75] burgundy  NOTES:  [71] Source: "Darkling", though the text and AU icon refer to "Year of Hell" (I took the clearest I could find) [72] Sons of Mogh refer to any personnel with those words in their lore or title, including Premiere Worf, Kurn, Worf Son of Mogh, and himself. Source: "Children of Time" [73] See Valerie Archer in Enhanced Apocalypse Rising for more information on 8472 infiltrators. This one has a little more skills, and counts as an Admiral (in case Species 8472 can ever use Going to the Top). Source: "In the Flesh" [74] "Baseball personnel" are personnel that "love baseball" or actually play it. The points scored are not Baseball's 20, but Bunt's 5. The last function could be used in conjunction with Are These Truly Your Friends Brother? or to recycle a Bunt you don't want in your hand ...

A bunch of cards from "The Killing Game"... THE ENTRIES: [66] Brigitte [67] British Intelligence [68] British Radio Network [69] Broik [70] Brone NOTES:  [66] French Resistance will be a Program card. The Encyclopedia misspelled her name as Brigette, I've fixed it. This is also the introduction of a red holographic icon, which AtoZ described as a Holodeck-only icon. It will be found on holo-personae, that is to say personae of flesh-and-blood personnel that have alter egos on the holodeck. The presence of the icon means that those personnel cannot report or be persona-switched unless a Holodeck is present. (Sorry, Holo-Projectors do not count.) This does not prevent those personnel from leaving the holodeck. Obviously, Decipher went a different way (think Dixon Hill), so this is AtoZ-only. Source: "The Killing Game" [67] Simple enough. Both attributes are meant to be "total". Source: "The Killing Game" [68] Both functions require a Resistance...

Introducing a new icon... THE ENTRIES: [61] Borven, Glinn [62] Bradbury, Ray [63] Bre'Nan ritual [64] Briar Patch [65] bridal auction NOTES:  [61] Trepar will be in Broken Links; Plans of the Fourth Order appears under "F". Source: Referenced "Ties of Blood and Water"; pic from "Strange Bedfellows" [62] Odd to start a new icon with the nullifyer, but that's the alphabetical way. The SF (Science Fiction) icon is something not unlike the Rules of Acquisition icon, which I've developed for the various SF authors mentioned in the Encyclopedia's addendum. The original rocketship icon looked like this: Here, we'll find not only the real SF authors of the 40s and 50s, but also the ones from Sisko's "dream". The cards' abilities will be related to the specific author's works or themes. Source: "Far Beyond the Stars"  [63] The real use of this card may be to get that Klingon female, but it can also serve to make a...